The actor/writer/producer dubs herself “situationally famous” in her new memoir, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost).

According to one particularly amusing anecdote, it means she's the kind of person who, while stopping by a Build-A-Bear Workshop at a suburban mall, gets a selfie request from two girls who work at the Hot Topic next door -- while no adults recognize her. She's also the kind of person who leaves with a stuffed Santa in a tutu.

You may (or may not) recognize Day, 36, from her web series The Guild, or roles in nerdy favorites like Dr. Horrible's Sing A-Long Blog, Buffy and Supernatural. But whether you’re geeky enough to know Day’s resume doesn’t matter when it comes to her memoir. Written in her engaging and often hilarious voice, it's just downright fun to read.

It helps that Day’s life has been as quirky as her public persona. She grew up in the deep South, was home schooled, and didn’t have many close friendships in her early years. It’s no surprise that gaming and early Internet chatrooms were a haven.

Actress Felicia Day has written a memoir.(Photo: Christina Gandolfo)

So when Day couldn’t get anyone from the TV industry to care about her pilot about a diverse group of gamers, she turned to the Internet. She and her producing partner made three episodes in their own homes for $1,500, put them online and waited for the magic to happen. It did, and The Guild ran six seasons and turned Day into a star who draws big crowds at Comic-Con.

It’s clear that the Internet is a hugely important part of her life. But Day does not ignore the drawbacks of living a life online, especially as a woman. She devotes a chapter to “#GamerGate,” the online harassment campaign aimed at women in gaming. She received hundreds of harassing and threatening messages after writing about it. And, as she notes, writing this chapter is likely to make her the target of future trolls.

"What frightened me the most about my #GamerGate experience was the possibility that this could be the future of the Internet," she writes. "That the utopia ... was really a place where people could steep themselves in their own worldview until they became willfully blind to everyone else's."

Felicia Day as Tallis, an Elven assassin, in the Web video series 'Dragon Age: Redemption.'(Photo: Tallis Productions)

Day does not shy away from the darker parts of her personal life. In a chapter called "The Deletion of Myself," she candidly discusses her anxiety issues: "My mental problems made me feel ashamed. And I didn't feel brave enough to make fixing my mind a priority." And while she eventually overcame these problems, she doesn't gloss over her long road to recovery, or the help she got along the way.

Even in the more serious sections, Day writes in a casual tone best described as “Internet-speak,” utilizing all-caps, slang, profanity and photographic memes to further her storytelling. It might seem gimmicky, but Day makes it feel so natural that you forget that not every book includes annotated pictures of the author as a child or passages about video games that SEE INTO YOUR SOUL.

For Day’s fans, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) might just be good enough to “see into their souls,” too.